The thing about Lea is not foreshadowing. It is like mentioning he has pink slippers and then, later, you see his pink slippers. He is just telling you he has them.

This is the only review thread I could find, so I'll just post here.

I got around to finally reading this book in december after having set it aside with a bad impression a bit previously.

Unfortunately, my initial bad impression never got better and I have to say that I really did not enjoy the book. As usual, Butcher is good with his action scenes and so, but the writing just wasn't there for the rest of it for me. Maybe it was because he chose to write in third person and just couldn't pull it off, but the characters were all like cardboard figures and complete stereotypes for the sort of characters you'd expect. There was zero depth or subtlety.

The book also seemed to be aimed at young teen readers. I know I watched an interview sometime last year where he said he wanted to write a book for young people: was this it? In that same interview, when asked why he started a new series, he replied, perhaps flippantly, thst it was to pay for a divorce. This, I believe!

There were some funny lines along the way, but there was a lot of obvious stuff, too. The, 'then why'd you marry her' line was so obvious in coming from nearly the first line about the woman, for example. There were several such places where you knew exactly what would happen.

Anyway, I wanted to like it, but just could not. I wasn't expecting a literary masterpiece because that's not what Butcher does. He writes fun popcorn fiction. However, I was still hoping for more than a paint by number piece.